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The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
In 1997, Yong-gu, a man with a developmental disability, lives happily with his six-year-old daughter Ye-sung and promises to buy her a Sailor Moon backpack. After a tragic accident involving a police commissioner's young daughter, he is wrongly arrested for her death and sent to prison, where his cellmates at first look down on him.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
Firefighter Kim Ja-hong is killed while on duty and is led into the afterlife by three grim reapers: Gang-rim, Hae Won-maek and Lee Deok-choon. As his guardians, they must defend him through seven trials over 49 days; if he passes, he will be reborn, and they will move closer to their own reincarnation.
Sang-hyeon and his friend Dong-soo secretly take babies left in a church's baby box and sell them to adoptive parents on the black market. When So-young comes back for her newborn son, she decides to join them on a road trip to find a family for him, while two detectives follow their trail.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
After her husband dies in a car accident, Lee Shin-ae moves with her young son Jun to Miryang, her late husband's hometown, hoping for a fresh start. When her car breaks down on the way in, local mechanic Kim Jong-chan comes to her aid, and he keeps helping out as she opens a piano school and settles into the town.
During the 1950 Hungnam evacuation of the Korean War, young Deok-soo is separated from his little sister, and his father stays behind to search for her. Before they part, his father makes Deok-soo promise to look after the family, and the boy flees to Busan with his mother and siblings to start over.
As a boy, Nam-yi flees with his younger sister Ja-in when the king's guards hunt down their father, a skilled archer and officer. Thirteen years later, Nam-yi is a gifted archer and hunter, and when Manchu forces raid the village on Ja-in's wedding day and carry her off, he sets out to rescue her.
In Busan's Haeundae district, Man-sik is haunted by a past mistake at sea that cost the life of Yeon-hee's father, even as she hopes to build a relationship with him. Around them, a geologist, his ex-wife, a lifeguard and other locals go about their lives, unaware of the enormous disaster bearing down on the coast.
Seoul, 1994. Fourteen-year-old Eun-hee is a shy girl who loves drawing and spends her days with her best friend Ji-suk at cram school. Overlooked by her parents and mistreated by her older brother, she finds new warmth when a free-spirited teacher, Ms. Kim, arrives to teach her class.
Fresh out of prison after serving time for a fatal hit-and-run, Hong Jong-du returns to Seoul and finds his family moved away without telling him. Awkward and out of step with everyone, he takes a delivery job and seeks out the victim's family, where he meets Gong-ju, a woman with cerebral palsy who has been left on her own.
Seven-year-old Sang-woo, a spoiled city boy, is left with his elderly grandmother in a remote village while his mother looks for work in Seoul. She cannot speak and walks bent over with a cane, and her home has no electricity or running water, so he treats her rudely while she patiently tries to care for him.
Wonderland is an AI service that lets people talk with loved ones who have passed away through simulated video calls. Archaeologist Bai Li keeps calling her young daughter from a desert dig, flight attendant Jeong-in chats with her astronaut boyfriend Tae-joo, and Wonderland staffer Hae-ri handles customers' cases while fending off teasing calls from her parents.
The Kang family leaves the city for a big house in the mountains and turns it into a guesthouse for hikers. But their guests keep dying in strange ways, and the family, afraid no one will believe them, starts hiding the bodies, which only pulls them into deeper and deeper trouble.
Lee Dae-ho raises his daughter Ha-na alone while managing a 120-story luxury tower complex in Seoul, and he has promised to spend Christmas Eve with her. Instead he must oversee a lavish party, and despite worries about frozen sprinkler pipes and high winds, the owner pushes ahead until a helicopter accident sets a tower ablaze.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
When a mother learns her husband is cheating, her furious attempt at revenge leaves their son horribly maimed, and she disappears into the night. Left behind, father and son struggle with the aftermath as rumors spread and the boy becomes a target of cruelty. The film tells its story without any spoken dialogue.
National judo athlete Doo-young permanently loses his sight after an injury at an international match. His estranged older brother Doo-shik, a swindler, uses the crisis to win parole from prison and moves back home, adding fresh stress for a young man who has fended for himself since losing their parents.
A fatal road rage attack puts two brothers on opposite sides. Jae-gyu, a principled surgeon, operates on the victim's badly hurt daughter, while his older brother Jae-wan, a high-earning defense attorney, takes on the driver's case. Their clashing values also shape their family lives, which are soon tested by a violent incident involving their own children.
Kim Ji-young is a stay-at-home mother raising her young daughter while her husband, Dae-hyun, works at an office. Once happy in a marketing career, she now feels trapped and unfulfilled, and at times she begins speaking and acting as though she were her own mother or late grandmother.
Nam Hyeon-soo, a former teen idol now in his thirties, works as a radio DJ. His life is turned upside down when a young listener who has been sending in stories about being a single mother shows up at his apartment with her little boy, claiming to be his daughter.
Nineteen-year-old Yoon-young dreams of a civil service job and lives with her deaf single mother while working part-time at a café. After a violent assault one night, she ends up in prison, known only as inmate 2037. In despair, she pulls away from her mother and slowly finds support among her cellmates in room 12.
Hong Jeong-hye is serving ten years in prison for killing her abusive husband, and the son she bears behind bars must, by law, be given up for adoption. Promised a day out with her infant if she pulls it off, she sets out to form a choir with fellow inmates, including death-row prisoner Kim Moon-ok.
Told in three short parts, the film follows a young man named Youngho. He waits to see his father, a traditional Korean doctor, at his clinic; later surprises his girlfriend Juwon in Berlin, where she has gone to study fashion; and years after, meets a famous actor, an old friend of his mother, at a seaside restaurant.
In Gwangju in May 1980, Min-woo lives a fairly quiet life with his younger brother Jin-woo, until soldiers suddenly turn their weapons on the city's people. As residents band together into a militia to protect their families, Min-woo finds himself caught in the middle. The film is based on the real Gwangju massacre.
After his wife dies suddenly in an accident, Sang-won is left alone with his daughter Yi-na, and the two have grown distant. Hoping to repair their bond, he moves them into a new house near the countryside. Just as Yi-na brightens up and talks about a new friend, strange noises begin coming from the closet in her room.
In 1925, under Japanese occupation, the legendary hunter Chun Man-duk has put down his rifle and lives quietly as an herb gatherer near Mount Jirisan with his teenage son, Seok. Meanwhile, the Japanese governor general, who collects tiger pelts, grows obsessed with killing a giant one-eyed tiger called the Mountain Lord that has escaped hunters for years.
In Seoul in 1975, nine-year-old Jin-hee is left at a Catholic orphanage by her father after he remarries, having been led to believe she is going on a trip. At the orphanage she struggles to accept being abandoned, holding on to the hope that her father will come back for her.
Jung-yeon has spent six years searching for her missing son. When an anonymous tip leads her to a remote fishing village, the locals and a wary police officer insist they have never seen him, but she senses they are hiding something and refuses to give up.
Gye-chun, a haenyeo diver on Jeju, is overjoyed when her granddaughter Hye-ji comes back after being lost for twelve years. The two start living together in Gye-chun's home and slowly try to rebuild their bond, though the grown-up Hye-ji shares very little about herself.
Abandoned as a baby in a coin locker in 1996, Il-young is sold at age ten to a woman known only as Mother, who runs a ruthless loan shark ring in Incheon's Chinatown. Seeing toughness in the girl, Mother raises her as a debt collector, until a job sends Il-young after Suk-hyun, a debtor's kind son.
Jang Ji-goo is a 16-year-old on probation, living with his bedridden grandfather, his only known family. His sweet new girlfriend Sae-rom is the one bright spot in his life. After he is caught in a burglary with older boys from the neighborhood, he has no parent to speak for him and is sent to a juvenile reformatory.
Since her divorce, Yoon-hee has lived in the countryside with her teenage daughter Sae-bom. When Sae-bom finds a romantic letter written to her mother by Jun, a Korean-Japanese woman who went to school with Yoon-hee long ago, she senses her mother's deep loneliness and plans a trip to the snowy Japanese town of Otaru, where Jun lives.
Jeong-yeon and Jong-bae are happily married and raising a young daughter, until a friend's unpaid loans, which Jong-bae guaranteed, leave them buried in debt. Desperate, Jeong-yeon agrees to carry what she believes are diamonds from Paris to Seoul for a shady acquaintance, but she is arrested at Orly Airport when police find cocaine in her bag.
